Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and writer, was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1978.
Kumail Ali Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter who was born on May 2, 1978. He is most known for playing Dinesh in the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley (2014–2019), as well as co-writing and acting in the romantic comedy film The Big Sick (2017). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing the latter with his wife, Emily V. Gordon. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. Nanjiani has also starred in the TNT comedy Franklin & Bash and the Adult Swim series Newsreaders, as well as voicing Prismo in the cartoon series Adventure Time.
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